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...counseling restraint and the public growing jittery about the Administration's plans, the hard-liners pumped up fresh hints last week that Saddam and bin Laden have struck an unholy alliance. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared, "There are al-Qaeda in a number of locations in Iraq" receiving shelter from Saddam's regime. "It's very hard to imagine the government is not aware of what's taking place in the country," he said. Another Defense official told the Washington Post that among them, "there are some names you would recognize"--a remarkable claim when the only name most Americans...
Nature is a messy place. It's always changing, often inhospitable and frequently excessive. For buildings and homes, we crave stability, consistency, moderation: in a word, shelter. So while on paper environmental architecture makes perfect sense--buildings should be in tune with their environment--in reality, it's not practical. Each dwelling, it seems, must have its own mini-environment, with its own temperature, air flow and water and lighting systems...
...They require the people in them to remain very aware of their wider environment. Murcutt's homes protect but don't alienate inhabitants from their surroundings. "There are psychological benefits in feeling sun in winter, shade in summer--knowing seasons and feeling real air," he says. In adjusting their shelter to the season or day or weather, people are coaxed into understanding and working with nature. It's a relationship crucial to preservation of all species. --By Belinda Luscombe
...their recent forays into the Casbah in search of militants, they took away Zakari's son Khalil, 21. Now standing by the pomegranate tree, Khalil tells how he was detained two days in a camp outside Nablus with most of the other young men of the Casbah, huddling without shelter. He says he was beaten when he refused to recite a crude rhyme that professed love for Israeli troops and cursed the genitalia of Palestinian mothers. He finally recited it to avoid being hit again. Weeks later, he will only write the words of the rhyme in a TIME correspondent...
France's problems aren't just at the bottom of the market. In a report to the Agriculture Ministry last year, beverage expert Jacques Berthomeau singled out the more refined AOC sector. "Beneath the shelter of our Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée hide a number of wines which are mediocre, if not unworthy of the appellation," wrote Berthomeau. Widely assumed to be a badge of quality, the aoc label guarantees little more than the place where a wine was produced. Quality controls introduced in 1974 are administered by growers themselves: 98% of wines submitted pass the test...